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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 199, 17 July 1903, Page 4

The epidemic of measles is travelling its course through the group with unabated vigour, and fast reaches fields in other islands and districts throughout the group. The Fiji Times, of June 10, says that to date some 18,000 cases have been reported since the epidemic started, and that only forty deaths are reported as attributed to this disease. This is doubtless due to the fact that the people as a whole are more amenable to the exercise of common-sense than of y’ore, and have followed the advice tendered to.them by' the authorities and settlers generally’. Sir Francis Jenne never heard a more remarkable excuse for a woman’s petition for divorce- tcan that given by a lady rn a New York Court recently. “Your Honor,” she said, “will be doing me a great favour in granting my petition. You see, when I married the defendant his bright red hair’ harmon-

ised beautifully with the decorations of the bouse, but I have just had it repapered and all the furniture upholstered, mostly in green, and now hisred hair clashes dreadfully with everything. You can imagine the shock mv sensitive system receives every time I see his fiery geranium coloured curls hanging over a sea-green couch, or flattened up against a sea-green wall paper. I gave him choice of divorce or hair dye, but he said he’d die before he'd dye. so there’s nothing left but to legally give him the run.” During the year ending 31st March. 1903, no fewer than 3,091,868 passengers were carried on the Wellington tramways, as against 2,791,902 for the previous year, an increase of nearly 300,000 passengers in the twelve months. A Liverpool schoolboy’ hanged himself behind a door in his bedroom. The boy (who was only 12 years old) had got a. table, fastened a rope to a hook above the door, and then suspended himself m such a way as to break his neck.

A correspondent of a London paper say’s : “"Visiting my son last summer in a village in the Roumanian Mountains we bought a sheep for 3s 9d. and later obtained Is lOd for the fleece. Chickens were 2s 6d a doz., eggs five a penny. Two pounds of delicious mountain strawberries, in a pretty woven basket cost 2id, basket included and for a big bouquet of 4 lilies of the valley a peasant boy’ demanded tbe equivalent of one-fifth of an English penny. Tnis is less than 100 miles from Bucharest, one of the prettiest, but one of the most expensive cities in Europe.” Advices have been received in Melbourne from South Africa, stating that it is unwise for anyone to proceed there from Australia unless they’ have money. One writer states that £2OO in Australia is equal to £4OO in South Africa. A terrible accident occurred the other day at Bond and Judd’s sawmill, Katikati, in tbe V/aihi district. An employee named Samuel Middlebrook, sixty years old, while engaged at work, was caught in a revolving shaft of the * machinery. Nobody else was present at tbe time. Before assista|jj|ip.rrived the unfortunate man had llfllPivhirled round and round, every stitch of clothing was torn off, and terrible injuries were inflicted. When released he was unconscious. Dr Slater was summoned from Waihi, and arrived at noon. On examination he found a deep laceration of the head, body, and elbow, an ankle sprained, and serious injury t> the spine. The doctor, after dressing the man’s wounds, had him sent into Katikati, where he lies in a precarious condition. It is thought he is progressing wonderfully , considering the extent of his injuries. For Influenza and Cold in the Seoul take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d.